| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 487 pages) |
| Contents |
Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; ONE: Observances, Rituals, and Festivals; 1. Why Women Are Compelled to Worship Dionysos: EURIPIDES Bacchae 23-42; 2. The Rites of the First Bacchic Worshipers: EURIPIDES Bacchae 677-768; 3. Women Worshipers of a Dionysian Deity, Sabos: DEMOSTHENES On the Crown 259-60; 4. Rituals for Brides and Pregnant Women in the Worship of Artemis: LSCG Suppl. 115; 5. Objects Dedicated to Artemis Brauronia IG II[sup(2)] 1514; 6. Women Participants at a Festival of Adonis: THEOCRITUS Idyll 15, 95-149; 7. Ritual Regulations in a Dionysiac Thiasos: LSAM 48 |
| Summary |
This is a substantially expanded and completely revised edition of a book first published by Fortress Press in 1988 as Maenads, Martyrs, Matrons, Monastics. It collects translations of primary texts relevant to women's religion (pagan, Jewish, and Christian) in Western antiquity, from the fourth century BCE to the fifth century CE |
| Analysis |
gresk-romersk |
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religion |
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kvinner |
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antikken |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women -- Religious life -- Rome -- History -- Sources
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Women -- Religious life -- Greece -- History -- Sources
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RELIGION -- Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict.
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Religion
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Women -- Religious life
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| SUBJECT |
Rome -- Religion -- Sources
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Greece -- Religion -- Sources
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| Subject |
Greece
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Sources
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kraemer, Ross Shepard, 1948-
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| ISBN |
1423761790 |
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9781423761792 |
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1433700964 |
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9781433700965 |
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9780195170658 |
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0195170652 |
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9780195142785 |
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0195142780 |
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1280560096 |
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9781280560095 |
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9780199725830 |
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0199725837 |
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